Rackspace Legal has created comprehensive guidelines for using
trademarks at Rackspace. To get a comprehensive view of trademarks, read
the 21-page
PDF.
If you're interested in only what you need to know to comply with
guidelines in your documentation, review the guidelines in this topic.

The following table shows examples of third-party trademarks that are often
used in our content.

Note

To see if there is a trademark or registered trademark for a new company
or software name that you use in your content, it's always a good idea to do
research on the Internet and make sure that you are following any specified
trademark guidelines. You can also use the Unites States Patent and Trademark Office site and search by
using their Find It Fast link.

Trademark

Notes

Adobe®

Alert Logic®

Android™

Ansible®

Apache®

Apache® Hive™

Apache® Hadoop®

Apache® Hawq™

Apache® HBase™

Atlassian®

Atlassian® Confluence®

Brocade®

CentOS®

Chef™

Cisco®

Cisco® Metacloud™

Citrix® GoToMeeting™

Cloudera Hadoop®

CloudFlare®

CloudStack®

Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (COBIT®)

DataDog®

Dell™

Elasticsearch®

EMC™

Equinix Cloud Exchange™

Equinix®

F5®

Fluentd®

Fortune® 100

Gartner®

GITHUB®

Google®

Google Cloud Platform™

Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST™)

Hortonworks®

IBM®

IBX® (Equinix)

Intel®

International Organization for Standardization (ISO®)

Java®

Jira®

Kubernetes®

Linux®

Mac OS® X

Older version of Mac operating system.

macOS®

Latest version of Mac operating system.

Magento®

MariaDB®

Microsoft®

Do not abbreviate this name to MS.

Microsoft® Azure™

Microsoft® Hyper-V®

Microsoft® SQL Server®

MongoDB®

MySQL®

NetApp®

New Relic®

NGINX®

This name is variously shown as nginx, Nginx, and NGINX on the
company's website. However, NGINX is a registered trademark of Nginx,
Inc.

NoSQL®

OpenStack®

openSUSE™

Oracle®

Oracle®

Oracle® Commerce

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS)

Percona® Server

Pivotal™

PostgreSQL®

Prometheus™

Python®

Red Hat®

Red Hat® Ceph Storage

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®

Red Hat and Enterprise Linux are trademarks, so they must always be
spelled and capitalized as shown. Do not abbreviate to RHEL. After the
first use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in an article or chapter, you can
use just Red Hat if there is no possible confusion with another Red
Hat product.

Redis®

Salesforce®

SaltStack®

SAP®

Sitecore®

Sitecore® Experience Platform™

Skype™

Spark®

SQL Server®

On the first occurrence of this trademarked product name, use
Microsoft® SQL Server®. After that, you can use just SQL Server. Do not
abbreviate to MSSQL or MS SQL.

Stash®

Now branded as Bitbucket®.

Storm™

UNIX®

UNIX is must always be spelled and capitalized as shown. Do not use
Unix.

If you need to verify whether a name is a trademark, see that company's
website. The following table provides links to some commonly used trademark
pages.

Note

To see if there is a trademark or registered trademark for a new company
or software name that you use in your content, it's always a good idea to do
research on the Internet and make sure that you are following any specified
trademark guidelines. You can also use the Unites States Patent and Trademark Office site and search by
using their Find It Fast link.

Use the following guidelines when showing Rackspace and third-party
trademarks in documentation.

Guideline

Example — Use

Example — Don't use

Show a trademark exactly as it's shown by the owning company (Rackspace
or third-party). Don't change the capitalization or abbreviate the
trademark.

Abbreviations are acceptable only if they're used by the owning company
and also trademarked.

This article describes the process of backing up a Microsoft®
SQL Server® 2008 database. These actions need to be completed by the administrator user or by a user who is part of the SQL Server
administration user group.

This article describes the process of backing up an MS SQL Server 2008
database. These actions need to be completed by the Administrator user
or by a user that's part of the MS SQL Admin user group.

Use trademarks as adjectives on first use in the text of an article or
chapter, and as often as possible after that.

After first use, you can use the trademark as an noun if it's clear
that you're referring to that trademark.

Don't use a trademark as a verb.

Each cloud server has a single private IP address. When you use the
RackConnect® solution, if you need direct access to the cloud server
from the Internet, you can use the public IP assigned to the server in
RackConnect.

Each cloud server has a single private IP address. When you use the
RackConnect, if you need direct access to the cloud server from the
Internet, you can use the public IP assigned to the RackConnected cloud
server.

Don't combine a trademark with any other term, including another
trademark. For example, don't attach a trademark to another term by
using a hyphen or slash.

On Linux®, macOS® X, and other operating systems based on UNIX®, you
usually use the ssh command to connect to a server via SSH.

On Linux®, macOS® X, and other UNIX®-based operating systems. you
usually use the ssh command to connect to a server via SSH.

Don't use a trademark as a possessive or as a plural. If necessary,
form a possessive or plural from the noun that follows the trademark
(which is used as an adjective).

The packaged version of NGINX® from Ubuntu® uses a sites-available and
sites-enabled layout in the same manner as an Apache® installation based
on Debian®.

Ubuntu®'s packaged version of NGINX uses a sites-available and
sites-enabled layout in the same manner as a Debian®-based Apache®
installation.

Always distinguish a third-party trademark from a Rackspace product name
or trademark. Generally you can do this through ensuring that words
intervene between the trademarks.

Show trademarks of different companies together only if a license or
agreement exists between the two companies. In such cases, use italics
to distinguish one trademark from the other. You can generally do this
just on first use of the two terms together in the document or article.

The version of MySQL® installed on Cloud Sites that use Windows®
technology is currently MySQL Connector version 5.2.5.

The Rackspace Cloud Storage App for Microsoft® SharePoint enables you to
work with files inside of Rackspace Cloud Files alongside SharePoint
content.

The version of MySQL installed on Windows Cloud Sites is currently MySQL
Connector version 5.2.5.

The Rackspace Cloud Storage App for Microsoft SharePoint enables you to
work with files inside of Rackspace Cloud Files alongside SharePoint
content.

Always use Fanatical Support as a trademark. Don't use Fanatical
outside of the trademark. On the first use of this trademark in a
document, in body content (not in headings), use bold font and use a
registered trademark symbol. In RST files, the syntax is
**FanaticalSupport**\®. In Markdown files, the syntax is
**FanaticalSupport**&reg;.